Companies going all in on AI could see their strategy backfire
Four of the five highest-ranked enterprise risks in Gartner’s Quarterly Emerging Risk Report were AI-related. AI strategy miscalculation and AI-driven competitive displacement …
Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses
Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access …
Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown
One retail scam used more than 1,200 look-alike .shop domains sharing a single IP address. The sites reused HTML, JavaScript and payment-page designs intended to harvest card …
Smart TVs can harbor unpatched security flaws and track what you watch
Smart TVs and connected plugs accounted for a large share of recorded security weaknesses in household devices, according to Bitdefender’s 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report. …
IT bosses are confident they’ve found the certificates they don’t know about
Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate renewals because …
Shame and sleepless nights haunt scam victims long after the money is gone
Scams and identity theft hurt people in different ways, and recovering involves much more than getting money back, according to ITRC’s 2026 Consumer Impact Report. Scam …
Stolen staff logins are spreading attacks between K-12 school districts
Last school year, 808 K-12 school organizations got some unwelcome news. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) told them their staff accounts or …
NIST starts the countdown to retire quantum-vulnerable encryption
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a roadmap for moving to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with earlier deadlines for certain sensitive …
Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on …
AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running …
Forgotten AI agents may still access sensitive company data
AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security’s 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of …
Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure
Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous …